Please Enjoy This Amazing Apple Promotional Video from 1984

Jason O. Gilbert
·Technology Editor

It’s Friday. Why not kick off your shoes, blow off your work, and bask in the glory of this retro promotional video from Apple from 1984?

Per the YouTube description, this video was apparently shown to Apple sales people to get them pumped for the original Macintosh computer. As a proof of its staying power, the Yahoo Tech team is grooving on it, in 2015. My colleague Daniel Howley is so excited by the video that he is currently sitting at his desk like this:

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And here’s me, crouched upon my workstation, too energized to be contained by a mere chair:

Why doesn’t Apple advertise like this anymore?

(Via OSXDaily, who discovered this gorgeous work back in 2011)